Thanks a lot for this post! I love spinach and enjoy finding new ways to put it into food, especially since fresh spinach is impossible to come by here. I have to use frozen stuff more often than I'm used to.

I'm not a fan of the texture of cooked spinach, so I too like sneaking it into other foods to avoid that slimyness. Sticking it in fried rice and curry sauces are some of my favorite ways to "hide" it. Also, having ricotta, spinach and chicken cannelloni is another delicious way of sneaking it into your diet.

what I "sneak" is garlic. I love it, and it's so good for you. My husband loves a good friend's cooking, & I know she uses alot of garlic, as I've watched how she prepares some of her dishes. But when I prepare the very same dish, he won't eat it when he realizes it has "garlic" in it. I keep telling him, "well you eat it, when you eat Maria's cooking, why not eat it here, too?" He'll come near eating my prepared dish when I say that to him.